Ancient Maya Teeth

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Vera Tiesler is a leading bioarchaeologist and a research professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán, where she heads the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology. She is the author of The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications: New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond.

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A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.

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Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Taking Stock of Physical Dental Embodiment

• 1.1. Permanently Inscribed Body Modifications of the Past
• 1.2. Mapping Dental Decorations from Kirchhoff’s “Grandiose” Mesoamerica

• 1.3. This Volume Part I. Crafting Maya Teeth (Thematic Section) Chapter 2. The Teeth of Dead People: Reconstructing Ancient Dental Works

• 2.1. Basics in Human Dental Morphology and Cultural Intervention
• 2.2. The ABCs of Traditional Dental Works
• 2.3. Scoring Dental Shapes in Mesoamerica
• 2.4. Contoured Dental Arches

• 2.5. Dental Drilling Procedures Chapter 3. Mouths as Portals, Teeth as Jewels: Dentitions as Indigenous Sociocultural Constructs

• 3.1. The Body in Mesoamerican Thought
• 3.2. Meanings of Traditional Dental Display, Lost and Found
• 3.3. Mouths as Portals
• 3.4. Teeth as Jewels
• 3.5. Contoured Dental Arches

• 3.6. Jeweled Teeth Chapter 4. The Life Cycles of Embellished Smiles

• 4.1. Social Age and Dental Work
• 4.2. Modeling Children and Sculpting Infant Teeth
• 4.3. Crafting the Teeth of Youngsters
• 4.4. Cutting into Teeth as Ritual Consumption

• 4.5. The Life Cycles of Modified Dental Portals Part II. Tooth Modifications across the Maya Landscapes (Regional Survey) Chapter 5. Dental Crafts during the First Millennium AD

• 5.1. Mesoamerican Tooth Sculpting before the Onset of the Classic
• 5.2. Maya Dental Crafting in the Course of the First Millennium AD
• 5.3. Crafting Teeth across the Maya Landscapes

• 5.4. Teeth beyond the Maya Lowland Corridor and the Role of Merchants Chapter 6. Dental Work, Gender, Community Building, and Distinction

• 6.1. Dental Work among Men and Women
• 6.2. Living on the Fringes of the Maya World: Multiethnic Dental Embodiment in the Copan Valley
• 6.3. The Precious Smiles of Royals

• 6.4. Ch’ok Rituals and the Mouth Portal of Janaab Pakal of Palenque Chapter 7. Tooth Decorations after the Maya Collapse

• 7.1. Teeth in the Maya Lowlands after the Collapse
• 7.2. Dental Works in the Wake of the European Conquest
• 7.3. Teeth and Culture in a Multiethnic Cemetery Population from Early Colonial Campeche

• 7.4. The Colonies and Beyond Chapter 8. Conclusions: Ancient Maya Teeth from a Cultural Perspective Appendix 1: Maintaining a Precious Smile: A Dentist’s Perspective on Maya Inlays and Fillings. Marco Ramírez, Patricia Quintana, Gloria Hernández, Vera Tiesler, and Elma Vega

• A1.1. Putting Drilled Tooth Cavities into Clinical Perspective
• A1.2. Toothache and the Health Burdens of Incrusted Teeth
• A1.3. Therapeutical Properties of Cements and Fillers

• A1.4. Patient Charts of Inlaid Dental Records Appendix 2: List of Documented Resources in the Data Survey for This Volume

• A2.1. Mexico
• A2.2. Belize
• A2.3. El Salvador
• A2.4. Guatemala
• A2.5. Honduras
• A2.6. Costa Rica
• A2.7. Ecuador
• A2.8. Peru Notes References Index